Archive for November, 2008
The long awaited Wrath of the Lich King arrived, and it is every bit as good as I hoped it would be.
Northrend looks fabulous, Death Knights are every bit as fun as i thought they would be - and their instances starting area has fantastic quests and a wonderful event as the end quest.
There is only one negative. The masses and masses of idiots that have crawled out of the woodwork. In the race to level politeness and basic etiquette has gone out the window.
Mob tagging and kill stealing are rife.
Even your own faction will be doing their best to tag mobs before you.
The most recent example (which did make me chuckle)
I was questing in zangarmarsh on my Deathknight. I was doing the umbrafen quest and had to kill a named mob in the top of a hut. So i get there and a gnome deathknight has just killed it. So i wait patiently for a respawn. I’ve been there for a number of minutes when a horde deathknight comes in. He stands right in front of my human deathknight and it’s pretty obvious to me that this guy is going to try to tag the mob before I do.
So i get smart. I update a targetting macro I have with the mob name, and I spam it.
I know the boss has a couple of guards and if they respawn and I’m tab targetting I may miss out on vital opportunity to tag the boss.
I’ve also got my fingers hovering over death grip and icy touch (I think that’s what it’s called).
The boss spawns I pull him to me and tag him then burn him down.
At which point this horde Death Knight gets angry.
I get spat on, I get a slap round the face, he brushes up against me and farts and then struts round calling me a chicken. (Even though he isn’t pvp flagged).
This moron was actually upset that he was unable to steal the mob I had been waiting patiently for.
So i did the only decent thing - I laughed at him for a while, then blew him a kiss then went on my way.
Now the evil side of me had toyed with two revenge acts. One was to wait for the respawn and tag the boss again. (mildly naughty).
The other was to log on to one of my horde characters and mock him via whispers. (very naughty, and probably against blizzards rules)
However I think it’s much better to leave them bristling with rage whilst I go on and actually enjoy my game time.
November 18th, 2008
The long awaited Wrath of the Lich King arrived, and it is every bit as good as I hoped it would be.
Northrend looks fabulous, Death Knights are every bit as fun as i thought they would be - and their instances starting area has fantastic quests and a wonderful event as the end quest.
There is only one negative. The masses and masses of idiots that have crawled out of the woodwork. In the race to level politeness and basic etiquette has gone out the window.
Mob tagging and kill stealing are rife.
Even your own faction will be doing their best to tag mobs before you.
The most recent example (which did make me chuckle)
I was questing in zangarmarsh on my Deathknight. I was doing the umbrafen quest and had to kill a named mob in the top of a hut. So i get there and a gnome deathknight has just killed it. So i wait patiently for a respawn. I’ve been there for a number of minutes when a horde deathknight comes in. He stands right in front of my human deathknight and it’s pretty obvious to me that this guy is going to try to tag the mob before I do.
So i get smart. I update a targetting macro I have with the mob name, and I spam it.
I know the boss has a couple of guards and if they respawn and I’m tab targetting I may miss out on vital opportunity to tag the boss.
I’ve also got my fingers hovering over death grip and icy touch (I think that’s what it’s called).
The boss spawns I pull him to me and tag him then burn him down.
At which point this horde Death Knight gets angry.
I get spat on, I get a slap round the face, he brushes up against me and farts and then struts round calling me a chicken. (Even though he isn’t pvp flagged).
This moron was actually upset that he was unable to steal the mob I had been waiting patiently for.
So i did the only decent thing - I laughed at him for a while, then blew him a kiss then went on my way.
Now the evil side of me had toyed with two revenge acts. One was to wait for the respawn and tag the boss again. (mildly naughty).
The other was to log on to one of my horde characters and mock him via whispers. (very naughty, and probably against blizzards rules)
However I think it’s much better to leave them bristling with rage whilst I go on and actually enjoy my game time.
November 18th, 2008
So my guild decided to have another little run through Karazhan last night, and everything was going well.
Myself and another Balance druid were having a wail of a time using the wonderful AOE abilities that patch 3.0 beefed up to burn down big groups of trash, and were pretty much competing against one another for DPS.
Firstly - If I was in a raiding guild I would NEVER,EVER,EVER Aoe like crazy with little thought of the consequences, but this is the new easy mode Karazhan, with a bunch of guildies for whom fun is the most important thing.
All in all it was a great fun run. I had a dumb moment where I wandered too close to maiden and pulled her before everyone was ready. We had just wiped on her (only the 6 of us) and I got that bit too close. Ironically we downed her more easily than the first attempt (and that was after one of us died almost instantly thanks to my stupid pull).
So we get to the opera event and it’s big bad wolf. I love that one. However I decide to try and get the most out of my dps and open with a starfall. All is going well but a short time in to the fight I look over and see loads of of mobs running on to the stage. Who then proceed to mop the floors with us. You guessed it - The insane radius of Starfall had successfully aggroed one of the spectators, who then brought a load of friends.
I got a lot of leg pulling from my guildies as a result - but we smoothly downed the big bad wolf the second time.
Still - that druid AOE is powerfully addictive stuff.
November 6th, 2008
So my guild decided to have another little run through Karazhan last night, and everything was going well.
Myself and another Balance druid were having a wail of a time using the wonderful AOE abilities that patch 3.0 beefed up to burn down big groups of trash, and were pretty much competing against one another for DPS.
Firstly - If I was in a raiding guild I would NEVER,EVER,EVER Aoe like crazy with little thought of the consequences, but this is the new easy mode Karazhan, with a bunch of guildies for whom fun is the most important thing.
All in all it was a great fun run. I had a dumb moment where I wandered too close to maiden and pulled her before everyone was ready. We had just wiped on her (only the 6 of us) and I got that bit too close. Ironically we downed her more easily than the first attempt (and that was after one of us died almost instantly thanks to my stupid pull).
So we get to the opera event and it’s big bad wolf. I love that one. However I decide to try and get the most out of my dps and open with a starfall. All is going well but a short time in to the fight I look over and see loads of of mobs running on to the stage. Who then proceed to mop the floors with us. You guessed it - The insane radius of Starfall had successfully aggroed one of the spectators, who then brought a load of friends.
I got a lot of leg pulling from my guildies as a result - but we smoothly downed the big bad wolf the second time.
Still - that druid AOE is powerfully addictive stuff.
November 6th, 2008
I really wish blizzard provided the ability to swap factions with a character.
I would happily pay for this facility. I’ve had to level a new character to 70 so that I could join some friends on the alliance side. It would have been sooo much better if i could simply have transferred one or all of my level 70’s across.
I suppose I can’t complain too much - I’ve got my sparkling new 70 night elf druid to play with. The druid class really is my current favourite.
Then again I’d love it if they would allow you to create level 55 characters in the same way you will create deathknights come Wrath of the lich king.
November 3rd, 2008